How does music have an affect on kids with disabilities

This assignment will be written as a model based off of the journal articles you encountered in JSTOR this week. Do your best to present your information as if it were published alongside similar academic works. For written assignments, please include a header with your name, the class, the assignment number and the date. You need to submit this as a .doc or .docx file, so if you are using any word document processor other than Microsoft Word, please make sure you export the file you are working in accordingly. Your files should be named using the following format: assignmentnumberLastname For example, my document would be named: assignment1Hembd The word limit is 300-600 words for the whole assignment. 1) Begin with a title that introduces your topic in a compelling way, that also provides specificity about what you are hoping to explore and uncover. For example, if my topic was dealing with math and music a title like “Math and Music” is not compelling nor does it get to the specifics of what I am really researching. Here are a couple option on how I can use this as a starting point for something much more powerful: “Mathematics and Music: How the ‘Golden Ratio’ has been used as compositional and musical analysis tool throughout history” or “An Exploration of How Various Mathematical Principles Apply to the Study and Performance of Music” 2) Write an abstract where you cover the following basics: • Why you think this research is important • Specific items that you wish to address through the research • How you plan on approaching the research • Possible obstacles you anticipate in completing the research The first topic I would like to expose you to is one that is gaining a lot of traction, and can be applied to very specific areas. People talk a lot about music as having therapeutic value, but without scientific data to substantiate it, it is just another placebo. Let’s start by searching JSTOR for the terms ‘music therapy’ and see what kind of articles come up. GO! (it is recommended to have this open in another tab or window so you can bounce back and forth between the database and our Canvas page). If this experiment worked, you should have a page that is showing 1-25 of 4,259 items. This is a lot, and should show you that the information you put into the search is an important way of sorting the results. Keep in mind that if we searched the same terms in a major search engine like Google we get 476,000,000 results. At least with JSTOR we know we are getting closer to real research and not someone’s Facebook page who just happens to have those words written somewhere on it. Before you click on any of the articles that appeared, let’s take a look at the first one and decipher the metadata that we see which helps us decide if we are even interested in this article. First, and most prominent, is the title “New Developments in Music Therapy” and text that tells us this is a journal article (typically this means it was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, and has a bit more oversight and credibility than someone’s blog post). This title looks great, especially if we are interested in just surveying the types of work being done in the field. If we look closer, we see the author’s name, followed by this: “International Review of Music Aesthetics and Sociology, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Dec., 1970), pp. 212-213” What does this tell us? The name of the journal, which is interesting as it relates both to music an sociology, the issue of the journal where it was published and when, as well as the specific page location. This gives us a couple more chances to be critical of the article before even opening it. 1970? hmm. Not that this is bad, but if we are looking for articles that have the latest and greatest methodology, technology, and that are relevant to modern society, this throws up some red flags.